Brisk Teaching- Free Chrome Extension for Teachers

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One survey from Rand proves that teachers are twice as likely to experience burnout than any other working adult. Similarly, a 2022 Gallup Poll revealed that 44 percent of American K-12 teachers and 35 percent of college and university professors in the United States reported feelings of burnout.

According to them, the major culprit for their declining health is the heavy workload. Unfortunately, teachers don't get free time even when they are done for their day. Beyond their classroom hours, they are burdened with planning, grading, writing, and other tasks to keep their students engaged in learning. This leaves them with little to no free time, further impacting their mental and physical health.

But, what if I tell you there is a free Chrome extension that can help you in avoiding burnout? The name of this tool is Brisk Teaching.

What is Brisk Teaching?

Brisk Teaching is a free Chrome Extension designed to enhance the efficiency of educators by simplifying their interaction with digital content and managing classroom tasks. Its AI technology and features are revolutionizing the way teachers and students can interact with each other in the classroom.

This Chrome extension has almost 30 tools, each performing a specific task to shoulder some burden of the teacher. A significant advantage of this Chrome extension is its ability to seamlessly integrate with your existing system, saving you from learning new tools and systems. 

You can integrate these 30 tools in Google Docs, Google Slides, Chrome, Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, and similar others. These tools of Brisk will help you with various tasks, including creating slides and presentations, grading papers, sending feedback to students, generating syllabi and quizzes, and detecting AI or plagiarism in students’ papers, among others. This tool also allows you to share interactive activities with your learners, helping you in tracking their progress. 

In short, Brisk Teaching covers every aspect of an educator’s life and saves them more than 10 hours a week. Due to its versatility and quality tools, it is trusted in over 20,000 districts by more than 900,000 educators.

How does Brisk Teaching Work?

Using the Brisk Teaching tool is straightforward and designed to seamlessly integrate into your existing system. You just have to download the Chrome Extension on your desktop from the Chrome Web Store. Now, open your apps or systems, such as Google Docs, and click on the Brisk Teaching icon. A myriad of features and options will be in front of you. You can choose any of them according to your choice. 

For example, in Google Docs, you can open any student’s assignment and click on the Feedback Generator feature of Brisk Teaching. It will ask you to do some settings, such as selecting the grade of the student and adding the rubric, in the side window. Once you do the setting, AI will start highlighting different sentences and words from Google Docs while adding feedback comments on them.

Tools of Brisk Teaching 

There are almost 30 tools in Brisk Teaching. But, we are going to discuss some famous and most commonly used ones in this blog.

AI Presentation Maker

You can open the PowerPoint Presentation app, click on the icon of Brisk Teaching, and tell it the topic of your presentation. You can select the number of slides, grade level of students, language, and other important information about your presentation. Within seconds, AI will generate attractive presentation slides in the PowerPoint for you. These slides will contain images, colorful backgrounds, and other interesting aspects.

AI Quiz Generator

You can open Google Forms or Docs to generate quizzes with Brisk Teaching. The tool allows you to upload your documents, if you have any, to generate quizzes with embedded answer keys. Additionally, you can give it any online resource, such as YouTube videos, to generate quizzes from it. Alternatively, you can also open any webpage and ask this tool to convert its content into quizzes.

Inspect Writing

Brisk Teaching is embedded with Google Docs, so you can inspect the writing process of your students on this platform. For this, open your students’ documents, and click on the inspect writing option. It will start the video recording of the document, telling you where students have copied and pasted the content, where they have written from AI, and where they are writing themselves.

Personalize Curriculum Development

You can create detailed syllabi or lesson plans through this tool anywhere you want. It is integrated with LMS platforms such as Google Classroom, Schoology, Google Docs, or Canvas. You can open any platform to generate your curriculum. For this, you have to give the grade level of your students, the length of the curriculum, and other aspects. In the end, it will give you a weekly plan while outlining the final project.

AI Detection

You can know if your students have used ChatGPT or Gemini to write an assignment through Brisk’s AI Detection feature. This feature will tell you the AI score in your students’ written assignments.

Reading Level Conversion

Suppose you read an article or blog on a website and want to share that information with your students, but the wording and sentences are too complex for them. In such cases, you can click on the Reading Level Conversion option on the Brisk Teaching. Share the grade level and language of your students, and it will generate the article tailored to your kid’s reading level in Google Docs.

AI Lesson Plans

You can create various types of lesson plans using Brisk Teaching. It provides you with different options, and you have to choose the one that suits your needs. For the general lesson plan template generator, simply provide the prompt, specify the grade level, and set the lesson duration. Moreover, you can generate a UDL lesson plan to accommodate the diverse needs of learners.

Text Translation

If you want to translate any content on the website for your students, you can do it with this feature. Brisk Teaching allows you to translate content in almost 48 languages. 

Teaching Resource Maker

You can generate different kinds of teaching resources with the help of this tool. It includes progress reports, rubrics, science worksheets, math problems, feedback, lesson templates, STAAR and SBAC practice tests, observation notes, and educational resources. You will find individual tools for each kind of educational resource on the Brisk Teaching Tool. You just have to click the desired one, give all the required information, and generate resources.

How to Use Brisk Boost for Students?

Brisk Boost is the newest feature of Brisk Teaching, helping teachers and students in making learning interactive and engaging. This feature helps in boosting any sort of online content, converting it into an engaging activity. It includes articles, slides, YouTube videos, Podcasts, or any other content.

For example, you read an article and decided to make it a part of your classroom. You want your learners to read and understand this article. So, what you can do is click on the Brisk Teaching extension icon, and select the student boosting option to land on the setting page. 

Over there, you have to select the grade level of your learners and language and choose one academic standard from different ones. The best thing is you don't need to choose the language of the original content, in fact, choose the one your students are most comfortable with.

In types of activities, you will see four options: Engage, Access, Write, and Reflect. You can go on any option to choose the activity type.

In the “Engage” option, you will see various other options too. Among them, you can select an AI tutor. Once you do it, the AI will generate the learning objectives and what role it will play in helping students learn. You can edit those objectives and roles as you want.

Once it is done, you have to share the activity with students. For this, create the classroom, give it a name, and add the Gmail IDs of students to make their group. In this way, they will get the link to the activity in their email that they have to click on to start doing the activity. Otherwise, you can manually share the link and passcode with students in the Google Classroom or any other LMS platform.

When students open the activity, they can chat with AI. Brisk AI will guide them, and provide them with activities to fulfill the learning goals and its role.

Pricing Plans of Brisk Teaching 

Brisk is free for Individual educators forever. You can access almost 23 tools, limited features of Brisk Boost, and limited feedback styles in this plan. It is perfect for educators who have small classes.

But, if anyone wants to have access to all features, they can go with the subscription plan. It costs 9.99 dollars per month, but if you go for a yearly plan, it is 99.99 dollars per year.

Moreover, it provides custom plans for schools and districts.

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